danbrotherston wrote: > <snip> > > Wow, more of a response than I expected, thanks very much for the > research. While not related to the mutex, the problem did appear to > be permission related. For the record, on windows XP > > import sys > import mmap > import win32event > > buffer_ready = win32event.CreateEvent (None, 0, 0, > "DBWIN_BUFFER_READY") > data_ready = win32event.CreateEvent (None, 0, 0, "DBWIN_DATA_READY") > buffer = mmap.mmap (0, 4096, "DBWIN_BUFFER", mmap.ACCESS_WRITE) > > > win32event.SetEvent (buffer_ready) > > > while win32event.WaitForSingleObject (data_ready, 1000) == > win32event.WAIT_TIMEOUT: > print "Timed out" > > print "Was signaled" > > appears to work. Write access appears to be required for the buffer > (which I can read and get useful data from: > > print buffer.read(4) > print buffer.read(4092) > > and no security object. I wasn't the one who figured this out, so I'm > really not sure why it works...but it seems to.
Excellent! Do you mind if I add a solution based on this as a How-Do-I? to my site [1] (suitably accredited, of course)? TJG [1] http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
